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Internal Revenue Code Section 179D may provide financial benefit to governments

  • Sherman & Howard LLC
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  • USA
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  • September 7 2011

In the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress enacted Section 179D of the Internal Revenue Code, which provides a deduction for the costs of installing certain energy efficient building systems in commercial buildings

Major new renewable energy development opportunities announced in Arizona

  • Bryan Cave LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 25 2013

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Record of Decision on Tuesday approving a renewable energy development plan that designates over 192,000

What the courts are saying...

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 31 2008

We begin this month with a look at another case dealing with a public entity’s broad discretion in evaluating bids on public construction projects

Making the most of transit

  • Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC
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  • USA
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  • January 19 2011

On an almost daily basis, one reads of more stimulus money pouring into American light-rail, streetcar, and walkable neighborhood projects aimed at reducing car dependence and creating more sustainable new urbanist communities

California legislature approves two “CEQA reform” bills

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 20 2011

Recognizing the role the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) often plays in hindering jobs-creating real estate development and energy infrastructure projects, a broad coalition of business leaders and labor leaders worked hard this year to advocate for meaningful CEQA reform that would reduce CEQA-created project delays, development costs, and often frivolous litigation that threatens much-needed economic activity

BLM faulted for poor management of renewables

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • June 17 2012

The Interior Department inspector general issued a report June 12 arguing that the Bureau of Land Management could improve its renewable energy program by more efficiently collecting rental fees on land it manages, clarifying bond guidance, and implementing a competitive bidding process on projects

Oregon’s integrated water resources strategy explores relationships between water and land use regulation

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2012

The Oregon Water Resources Department (“WRD”) recently released what WRD hopes will be the final draft of Oregon’s strategy to manage the state’s water resources

Court rejects the need for CEQA analysis of sea level rise and invalidates ceqa guideline

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 6 2011

In an opinion ordered published last Friday, December 2, 2011 (originally filed November 9, 2011), the Second District Court of Appeal held that the City of Los Angeles was not required to discuss the impact of sea level rise as a result of global climate change on a proposed mixed-use development project